Sushruta Samhita · Chapter 1.32
athātaḥ svabhāvavipratipattimadhyāyaṃ vyākhyāsyāmaḥ //
yathovāca bhagavān dhanvantariḥ //
svabhāvaprasiddhānāṃ śarīraikadeśānāmanyabhāvitvaṃ maraṇāya / tadyathā śuklānāṃ kṛṣṇatvaṃ kṛsṇānāṃ śuklatā raktānāmanyavarṇatvaṃ sthirāṇāṃ mṛdutvaṃ mṛdūnāṃ sthiratā calānāmacalatvaṃ acalānāṃ calatā pṛthūnāṃ saṃkṣiptatvaṃ saṃkṣiptānāṃ pṛthutā dīrghānāṃ hrasvatvaṃ hrasvānāṃ dīrghatā apatanadharmiṇāṃ patanadharmitvaṃ patanadharmiṇāmapatanadharmitvaṃ akasmācca śaityauṣṇyasnaigdhyaraukṣyaprastambhavaivarṇyāvasādanaṃ cāṅgānām //
svebhyaḥ sthānebhyaḥ śarīraikadeśānāmavasrastotkṣiptabhrāntāvakṣiptapatitavimuktanirgatāntargatagurulaghutvāni pravālavarṇavyaṅgaprādurbhāvo vāpyakasmāt sirāṇāṃ ca darśanaṃ lalāṭe nāsāvaṃśe vā piḍakotpattiḥ lalāṭe prabhātakāle svedaḥ netrarogādvinā vāśrupravṛttiḥ gomayacūrṇaprakāśasya vā rajaso darśanamuttamāṅge nilayanaṃ vā kapotakaṅkakākaprabhṛtīnāṃ sūtrapurīṣavṛddhirabhuñjānānāṃ tatpraṇāśo bhuñjānānāṃ vā stanamūlahṛdayoraḥsu ca śūlotpattayaḥ madhye śūnatvamanteṣu parimlāyitvaṃ viparyayo vā tathārdhāṅge śvayathuḥ śoṣo'ṅgapakṣayorvā naṣṭahīnavikalavikṛtasvaratā vā vivarṇapuṣpaprādurbhāvo vā dantamukhanakhaśarīreṣu yasya vāpsu kaphapurīṣaretāṃsi nimajjanti yasya vā dṛṣṭimaṇḍale bhinnavikṛtāni rūpāṇyālokyante snehābhyaktakeśāṅga iva yo bhāti yaśca durbalo bhaktadveṣātisārābhyāṃ pīḍyate kāsamānaśca tṛṣnābhibhūtaḥ kṣīṇaścchardibhaktadveṣayuktaḥ saphenapūyarudhirodvāmī hatasvaraḥ śūlābhipannaśca manuṣyaḥ śūnakaracaraṇavadanaḥ kṣīṇo'nnadveṣī srastapiṇḍikāṃsapāṇipādo jvarakāsābhibhūtaḥ yastu pūrvāhṇe bhuktamaparāhṇe chardayatyavidagdhamatisāryate vā jvarakāsābhibhūtaḥ sa śvāsānmriyate bastavadvilapan yaśca bhūmau patati srastamuṣkaḥ stabdhameḍhro bhagnagrīvaḥ pranaṣṭamehanaśca manuṣyaḥ prāgviśuṣyamāṇahṛdaya ārdraśarīraḥ yaśca loṣṭaṃ loṣṭenābhihanti kāṣṭhaṃ kāṣṭhena tṛṇāni vā chinatti adharoṣṭhaṃ daśati uttaroṣṭhaṃ vā leḍhi āluñcati vā karṇāu keśāṃśca devadvijagurusuhṛdvaidyāṃśca dveṣṭi yasya vakrānuvakragā grahā garhitasthānagatāḥ pīḍayanti janmarkṣaṃ vā yasyolkāśanibhyāmabhihanyate horā vā gṛhadāraśayanāsanayānavāhanamaṇiratnopakaraṇagarhitalakṣaṇanimittaprādurbhāvo veti //
bhavanti cātra /
cikitsyamānaḥ samyak ca vikāro yo'bhivardhate /
prakṣīṇabalamāṃsasya lakṣaṇaṃ tadgatāyuṣaḥ //
nivartate mahāvyādhiḥ sahasā yasya dehinaḥ /
na cāhāraphalaṃ yasya dṛśyate sa vinaśyati //
etānyariṣṭarūpāṇi samyag budhyeta yo bhiṣak /
sādhyāsādhyaparīkṣāyāṃ sa rājñaḥ saṃmato bhavet //
Original text: Suśrutasaṃhitā · Edition: ed. Yādavaśarman Trivikrama Ācārya (Nirnaya Sagar Press); e-text by SARIT · SARIT: Search and Retrieval of Indic Texts · SARIT (e-text) via Internet Archive · CC BY-SA 3.0